sexual harassment

1. Introduction:
Sexual harassment, which includes anything from drawing attention to an individual’s body, causing embarrassment and demanding sexual favours, is a powerful discriminatory factor for anyone at any stage of their career. It is the conduct interferes with an employee's work or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment. The victim as well as harasser of sexual harassment may be a women or a man. Differences in power or status can be a significant component in sexual harassment at workplace. Like many other countries in Bangladesh also men have the power in organization and professional life, while women are in subordinate position. This gender power discrimination causes sexual harassment where women who are powerless, are the main victims.

The European Commission offers a broader definition of sexual harassment as, “Sexual harassment” means unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, or other conduct based on sex affecting the dignit...